Quotes about animal
animal effort silence
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs. Sallust
animal thinking voice
I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference. Even to protect their own interests or the interests of the planet or the animals or other individuals, which is critical. I try to keep it. Russell Simmons
animal smoking cigarette
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
animal race shadow
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. Romain Rolland
animal men vegetarianism
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.
animal men thinking
The whole underside of our society has always been violence and still is. Churches, laws - everybody seems to think that man is a noble savage. But he's only an animal. A meat-eating, talking animal. Recognize it. He also has grace and love and beauty. But don't say to me we're not violent. Sam Peckinpah
animal forever heaven
We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for ... Sam Keen
animal mountain desert
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. Saadi
animal ifs
if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us. Rosa Bonheur
animal opportunity pigs
It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal. Ron Reagan
animal income ongoing
With the help of folks like you and me, Heifer International tackles the problem of hunger one family at a time with gifts of renewable resources - farm animals that are ongoing sources of food and income. Susan Sarandon
animal water chickens
Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot. Susan Orlean
animal different creatures
We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.
animal mind atheism
Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much. Susan Ertz
animal soul gains
The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck. Thomas A. Edison
animal brain use
I am a vegetarian as well as a passionate anti-alcoholic, because I can thus make better use of my brain.
animal earth
Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us. Sheryl Lee
animal play
Anything that is impractical can be play. It's doing something other than what is necessary to continue living as an animal. Shigeru Miyamoto
animal imagination giving
What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals. Shia LaBeouf
animal yellowstone wish
In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed. Natalie Jeremijenko
animal vegetarian strict
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values. Natalie Portman
animal ideas water
Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it. Tao Lin
animal support research
...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research Tony Blair
animal details campaigns
The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.
animal rights views
Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights view will not be satisfied with anything less than total abolition. Tom Regan
animal perfect pet
In a perfect world, we would not keep animals for our benefit, including pets,
animal judgment reason
What could be the basis of our having more inherent value than animals? Their lack of reason, or autonomy, or intellect? Only if we are willing to make the same judgment in the case of humans who are similarly deficient.
animal rights humanity
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.
animal rights be-kind
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages.
animal use world
The other animals humans eat, use in science, hunt, trap, and exploit in a variety of ways, have a life of their own that is of importance to them apart from their utility to us. They are not only in the world, they are aware of it. What happens to them matters to them. Each has a life that fares better or worse for the one whose life it is.
animal men race
It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible... As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general. Thomas Malthus
animal roles cost
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. Tony Kushner
animal thinking artist
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals. Tommy Lee